Community Involvement Officer
At a glance
- Band
- Band 5
- Contract
- Secondment
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 15/09/2026
- Closes
- 29/09/2026
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Role summary
This role supports the development of Caerphilly's place-based well-being approach by strengthening local networks, engaging partners, and working with community assets. The officer will promote well-being for all, focusing on empowering people and building strong, positive relationships. It requires a motivated, organised, proactive, and confident communicator who can work independently and as part of a team. The post is fixed-term/secondment for 6 months due to funding.
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable qualification or experience.
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Good understanding of assets-based community development approaches and strengths-based approaches to working with people
- Good knowledge of a variety of methods for community involvement
- Knowledge and understanding of health inequalities and barriers / facilitators to good well-being
- Good understanding of the functions of public, third sector and community organisations
- Knowledge of information governance and confidentiality in handling personal information
Desirable criteria
- Community development qualification
- Experience of working in a community environment and engaging effectively with people
- Experience of building and maintaining partnerships to achieve positive outcomes
- Experience of producing and communicating information for the public
- Experience of dealing with a variety of people at different levels, including members of the community and partner organisations
- Experience of using community development approaches
- Skills and Attributes
- Confident and approachable communicator who can adapt the message and delivery to fit the needs of the audience
- Positive and proactive with the ability to engage and motivate partnership collaborations
- Ability to build strong relationships and foster trust and co-operation between partners
- Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, professionalism and influence
- Proficient in the use of IT with excellent knowledge of Microsoft office packages
- Creativity - layout of documents, design of presentations and displays, methods of engaging people
- Establishing systems and processes to ensure effective recording, monitoring and evaluation of engagement activities
- Ability to work on own initiative and use excellent organisational skills
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
- Other
- Flexible to work at different locations
- The ability to travel frequently across Gwent in conducting this role
- Educated to degree level or equivalent demonstrable qualification or experience.
- Evidence of continual professional development
- Good understanding of assets-based community development approaches and strengths-based approaches to working with people
- Good knowledge of a variety of methods for community involvement
- Knowledge and understanding of health inequalities and barriers / facilitators to good well-being
- Good understanding of the functions of public, third sector and community organisations
- Knowledge of information governance and confidentiality in handling personal information
- Community development qualification
- Experience of working in a community environment and engaging effectively with people
- Experience of building and maintaining partnerships to achieve positive outcomes
- Experience of producing and communicating information for the public
- Experience of dealing with a variety of people at different levels, including members of the community and partner organisations
- Experience of using community development approaches
- Skills and Attributes
- Confident and approachable communicator who can adapt the message and delivery to fit the needs of the audience
- Positive and proactive with the ability to engage and motivate partnership collaborations
- Ability to build strong relationships and foster trust and co-operation between partners
- Able to demonstrate a high level of interpersonal skills, displaying credibility, professionalism and influence
- Proficient in the use of IT with excellent knowledge of Microsoft office packages
- Creativity - layout of documents, design of presentations and displays, methods of engaging people
- Establishing systems and processes to ensure effective recording, monitoring and evaluation of engagement activities
- Ability to work on own initiative and use excellent organisational skills
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
- Other
- Flexible to work at different locations
- The ability to travel frequently across Gwent in conducting this role
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 5 at £29,970 – £36,483 a year, across England.
This advert: £32,557 – £39,631 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Community Involvement Officer
The closing date is 29 September 2026
Job summary
This post is a fixed term/secondment for 6 months until 31st March 2027 due to funding.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post
Integrated Well-being Networks have been implemented across Gwent to improve well-being through community-based, place-focused approaches. They form a key part of the whole-system transformation set out in the Welsh Government's long-term plan for health and social care.
As Community Involvement Officer you will support the development of Caerphilly's place-based well-being approach - strengthening local networks, engaging partners, and working with community assets to promote well-being for all.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
You will have a passion for working with people and empowering them to achieve their goals. You will be able to build strong, positive and long-lasting relationships that lead towards better well-being for all. You will be motivated, organised, proactive and a confident communicator. You will be comfortable working independently and alongside the team in order to achieve our
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